Passive DI box- Active guitar & bass

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Both the guitar and bass that i own have active pickups in them. I have been looking into buying the Auture black lion audio Preamp and a DI box. Will the DI box be a bad addition or a good addition?
 
BDiNkY30 said:
Both the guitar and bass that i own have active pickups in them. I have been looking into buying the Auture black lion audio Preamp and a DI box. Will the DI box be a bad addition or a good addition?
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I almost fell into the DI trap..................I guess its good if your neighbors are pricks...........but my advice to you

BUY A GOOD MIC AND FROM YOUR AMP.

example: sound leaves your amp...........then goes into your mic...........from there it goes to your audio interface...........from there it goes into your computer either usb or firewire...............once the sound is in your software program you can do amazing things!!!!!!!!

BUT if you have a decent mic and a decent audio interface you don't really need to do much tweaking at all


I am using a shure SM57 mic and a M-audio Fast track usb interface/ sonar 7XL

the only thing i would like is for a little more warmth on the guitars.

its far from perfect......but pretty good for 200 bucks of total hardware!!!!!!!!!!
 
Active pickups work just as well with a passive or an active DI. Passive pickups may or may not work very well with a passive DI because the passive DI might load the pickups and make them sound bad.
 
Farview said:
Active pickups work just as well with a passive or an active DI. Passive pickups may or may not work very well with a passive DI because the passive DI might load the pickups and make them sound bad.
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In addition to the wise advice stated above (specifically for bass), there are capable DI's that are designed for both pass. & act input signals. I use an Aphex Bass Exciter which incorporates a DI output @ mic level and an act./pass. input selection switch which provides a max 12db loss of level in order to avoid signal overload. Hi & Lo freq'y blending ctls allows me to "flavor" my signal. It's also a pretty good unit when used in bass cabs/amplification giving a sorta' "parametric eq" dynamic to bass tonality.
Another all-around,basic and useful DI for both bass & git is the ProCo DB-1.
An economic and decent approach for DI apps.
 
MISTERQCUE said:
In addition to the wise advice stated above (specifically for bass), there are capable DI's that are designed for both pass. & act input signals. I use an Aphex Bass Exciter which incorporates a DI output @ mic level and an act./pass. input selection switch which provides a max 12db loss of level in order to avoid signal overload. Hi & Lo freq'y blending ctls allows me to "flavor" my signal. It's also a pretty good unit when used in bass cabs/amplification giving a sorta' "parametric eq" dynamic to bass tonality.
Another all-around,basic and useful DI for both bass & git is the ProCo DB-1.
An economic and decent approach for DI apps.
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Thanks for clearing that one up guys.
 
It should be fine, as stated above, its likely to cause more trouble with passive pickups than active ones (assuming its not some totally ridiculous design that cant handle the guitar's output, but all the 20 dollar passives I've seen can do it fine)

This video I made here shows why I ALWAYS take a DI split even if I'm micing an amp

http://www.cockos.com/wiki/index.php/Guitar_Tricks_Part_1
 
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